Personally I think it’s silly as hell. Qualia is obviously a biological component of experience… Not some weird thing that science will never be able to put in to words.
I’ve been listening to a lot of psychology podcasts lately and for some reason people seem obsessed with the idea despite you needing to make the same logical leaps to believe it as any sort of mysticism… Maybe I am just tripping idk
Are all computational devices conscious? If not, why not?
I do think we will recreate consciousness by computer means, our current computers are not conscious as we currently define it as they do not really attempt to achieve homeostasis.